6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (8 December - Results & Review)

3. Inessential Wrestling

This is going to feel a bit hypocritical, but it needs to be said: WWE excels at producing perfectly acceptable – and ultimately forgettable – wrestling matches, and it shouldn’t foster blind praise.

Of the four matches on Raw Monday night, three trended from “pretty entertaining” to “really good,” but none of them will rise to the level of fans wanting to replay them in their entirety, nor will fans tell their friends to go out of their way to watch one of them in full.

In 2025, it’s simultaneously difficult for two experienced wrestlers to have a truly bad match, and also tough to have a match that breaks through the noise of hundreds of “good” matches and have one that’s truly memorable. Raw offered some perfectly entertaining fare, which will receive praise later, but it feels like these matches are interchangeable at times and are almost superfluous.

Is that too harsh and hypocritical? Perhaps. But it’s hard to shake that feeling, and WWE needs to find a way to resolve it.